And so family, friends, and kind-hearted motor enthusiasts banded together to bring three vehicles styled after characters in the Transformers movie series to visit Daniel in Plymouth.

A large crowd of young sci-fi fans, and older car aficionados, turned out at Stonehouse Creek to see what happened when Daniel was visited by good-guys Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, and their arch foe Barricade.

Daniel, who was diagnosed with the brain cancer pontine glioma in the summer of 2017, was delighted and his mother, Steph Downing, said the gesture was a wonderful way of brightening her little fighter’s day and taking his mind off his illness.